Racial discrimination against inventors and entrepreneurs doesn’t only harm the specific individuals it targets.

It distorts markets, prevents useful products from reaching consumers in a timely way, and denies society the full benefits of the inventive work that discrimination suppresses.

The eighteen years that Mary Kenner waited for a manufacturing partner were not only eighteen years of injustice to her personally; they were eighteen years during which the product she had invented was not available to the women who could have used it.

The Documentary and the Growing Recognition